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This map centers on 34th Street and shows what Midtown Manhattan's 21st Ward looked like in 1867. It features the East River lumber yards, the ferry to Hunters Point, the location of mansions, the railroad engine house (East of 4th Ave), and a number of churches.

This cropped image shows three blocks of 34th Street between 3rd Avenue and the East River. The buildings, colored in red, include the Post Office, Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery, New York. Also visible is the Pennsylvania RR East River tunnel and the ferry terminal to Long Island City.

This cropped image shows two blocks between 5th Avenue and 7th Avenue and between 33rd Street and 35th Street. The buildings, colored in red, include Saks, R.H. Macy's, Gimbels, Hotel McAlpin, Hotel Pennsylvania and the Empire State Building. On the map, Broadway crosses 6th Avenue and 35th Street to create Herald Square.

This cropped image shows two blocks between Nineth Avenue and Eleventh Avenue and between 33rd Street and 35th Street. The buildings, colored in red, include row houses, garages, the 33rd Street Trucking Company, St. Mary's Hospital for Children, St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, convent and school, a nurses home, the Webster Apartments, the H. Hermann Furniture Company, Haddon Hall, the Wilkes Dispensary, the Master Printers Building and the Haywood Wakefield Company.

A map showing the Midtown Manhattan area in 1867, well before commerce transformed it into skyscrapers and department stores. The farms are being divided into individual allotments to create housing and businesses. Murray Hill area, between 33rd through 35 Streets and between Broadway and Lexington Avenue.

This colorful map shows New York City before it was incorporated into the five boroughs. Westchester County stretches down into what is now the Bronx, Brooklyn appears as an independent city, and Queens is only a county.